Marie Howe Quotes

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die.

A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.

Memory is a poet, not an historian.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

I am living. I remember you.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.

Poetry is telling something to someone.